From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1ND1J5-00068w-Sc for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:44:12 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ND1J4-00067d-7N for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:44:10 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ND1Iz-00062D-FS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:44:09 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34954 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ND1Iz-00061t-8p for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:44:05 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f215.google.com ([209.85.219.215]:55784) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ND1Iy-0007v3-Ei for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:44:04 -0500 Received: by ewy7 with SMTP id 7so273095ewy.8 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:43:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=Gn0A+s+aAcr/30qmodRYwiTw1/FngSnqqvq4bFwtuRg=; b=q7XXZh54oRmKEVVi/0xOA4FhL+g8Rh5Wob9dwhRIAS51RHUYQNYAK6oGRg01MBIqxT xqguTM8x3o+8hlxPnmXFZYW4kFJYZa3KIIZ+j9mVhVmjk/6gioMG5m7UX1UM92Fqem+h uya70Qt4VczJOWr1H5OGdHXO2lv2XuK2yoLuQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=EiQtlyfa00Fsbq1Tye88yrkizIB4spxzVry/yRln8CkLzJK3KqtipkGbuH9iEbOiPg MIoC+njmiid5lDZ9nodixNdhrDnnFqN5xQGUT6/oM92jyJgUDj/31ynQrVVSYE1muuP7 gAwX/dwoRqmCezFoeoWPA6yR8sP/hpslLJxtA= Received: by 10.213.0.142 with SMTP id 14mr19178ebb.49.1259091823497; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:43:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (gprs25.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.25]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm455787ewy.14.2009.11.24.11.43.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:43:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B0C3762.9000700@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:43:30 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20091109) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <20091124121027.GA317@thorin> <20091124173555.GA32105@thorin> <20091124110646.42f051d6@svelte> In-Reply-To: <20091124110646.42f051d6@svelte> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigA0662F716DF972C9FA2C42DB" X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:44:10 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigA0662F716DF972C9FA2C42DB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Colin D Bennett wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:35:55 +0100 > Robert Millan wrote: > > =20 >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 04:27:13PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> =20 >>> I suspect what you are asking is impossible. >>> >>> As far as I understand unifont is a single bitmap font in a single >>> pixel size and the tarball you sent contains multiple font faces in >>> multiple sizes. >>> =20 >> Any idea how were those fonts built, then? >> =20 > > I just took a bunch of fonts from my Gentoo Linux system and converted > them. It is just a quick demonstration of how many types, sizes, and > styles of fonts can be used (e.g., small to huge; sans-serif, > monospaced, and serif; italic and normal; etc.). > =20 I identified number of fonts as one of the reason of gfxmenu needing important amount of time to load. I prefer to have few nice looking free fonts with reasonable unicode coverage (we'll need it because of gettext) and load only ones really needed > =20 >> Why would I want to convert those fonts? My goal is figuring out how >> to provide suitable font files out of the usual selection of free >> fonts that is provided by distributors. So far I only know of >> unifont in this selection, but there's certainly more. Can you help? >> =20 > > I think that true bitmap fonts will look much, much better than > converted outline fonts, but perhaps if we added an 8-bit alpha channel= > to the font format and grub-mkfont could do anti-aliasing during the > conversion process; then I think we could make use of all the free > outline fonts I'm ok wth doing any kind of preprocessing in grub-mkfont but grub2 has to remain simple in order to ensure reasonable performance even on slow system (curren't it's not the case and more work is needed for optimising it) > > Regards, > Colin > =20 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------= - > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > =20 --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enigA0662F716DF972C9FA2C42DB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iF4EAREKAAYFAksMN2oACgkQNak7dOguQgkHkgD+JZaq7S9cVYfhZ/fG4pym1TTa iVd4TyIWiUe2VmpyMRIA/0Inll8TafOH/+p2GyNRQ9sG+zsn8ny5aK5Pxn2I2QrL =1HoC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigA0662F716DF972C9FA2C42DB--